blueberry mead melomel

Blueberry Mead Recipe – Making A Blueberry Melomel

If you're a fan of fruit meads and have already tried something like my blackberry melomel, then blueberry mead is worth trying, the recipes are really similar and the flavours are great..  Blueberries, with their rich colour, natural…
Champagne Yeast
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Champagne Yeast – A Complete Guide

If you have ever made a fruit, floral or vegetable wine yourself you will probably be familiar with the term “champagne yeast”. You are probably thinking, why use champagne yeast, what is champagne yeast and why is it any different…
Blackberry mead

Blackberry Mead – The Perfect Berry Melomel

Blackberry mead or melomel is one of my favourites and has all the qualities of a blackberry wine but the added complexity of the honey. The mead finishes a dark ruby red and makes use of the abundant blackberries that grow wild all around…

Hydromel Recipe – How To Make A Plain Or Fruit Hydromel

Mead or honey wine comes in many forms and this article is about a special kind of mead called Hydromel. A drink like mead that is so simple and uses the simplest ingredients has so many variations and names and hydromel is one of my favourites. In…
what is melomel

What Is Melomel & How To Make It

Mead or Honey wine has the most archaic and names for the varies styles and sub-styles of any drink around. Melomel is among those names that don’t make much sense when you hear it and maybe that is why such a delicious drink doesn’t…
Staggered Nutrient Additions
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Staggered Nutrient Additions For Mead & Country Wines

Yeast nutrients are really important in mead making and for making country wines (fruit, floral or vegetable wines other than grapes). Along with this when and how they are added can make a difference, staggered nutrient additions are beneficial…
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Using A Refractometer

Using a refractometer is possibly the quickest and easiest way to check gravity throughout the brewing process. A refractometer is not as commonly used by homebrewers as a hydrometer but I find using one is much easier for quick readings…
How To Make Braggot
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Making A Braggot – Basic Braggot Recipe

Beer and mead. These two drinks are as old as history itself. Wherever there are fermentable grains you find beer. Wherever there’s plenty of honey you find mead. And when both are in abundance, you get braggot.  Braggot is not always…
How To Degas Wine
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How To Degas Wine

One of the byproducts of fermentation that we do not want in the finished wine or still mead is carbon dioxide. Even sparkling wines first need to be degassed and this part of the process can sometimes be tricky because, after all,…
Apple Mead

Apple Mead / Cyser Recipe

Apple mead goes by a variety of names, Apple Melomel, Cyser, Applejack or simply apple mead. It is the combination of two delicious drinks and the result is unique and delicious in it’s own right. Making Apple mead is really simple to…